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Quotes from On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 — Mary McCarthy

1947–1989 United States

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People sometimes say that they envied the Communists because they were so "sure." In my case this was not exactly it; I was sure, too, intellectually speaking, as far as I went. That is, I had a clear mind and was reasonably honest, while many of the Communists I knew were pathetically fogged up. In any case, my soul was not particularly hot for certainties.

On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

[T]he labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary McCarthy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.